"So when Paul writes about how we should live that incorporation, I'm all ears."
I don't think so. I think you are deceiving yourself or being deceived by someone else.
I don't think you can answer the following question on the Biblical side honestly in the affirmative.
Paul wrote about that and particularly meetings of such in I Cor 14.
Are your meetings held accordingly with Holy Spirit doing His part overtly in concert with such efforts? Does each come with a song, a verse, a prophecy or such?
Given your stances, attitude and comment, I'd virtually guarantee that your honest answer has to be no.
Therefore, you don't really follow Paul's writings on corporate life much at all.
You are doggedly convincing me that you have less and less to offer me on such issues.
This is, of course, a phenomenon which you can discern perfectly in others - but which, of course, could never happen to yourself.
I don't think you can answer the following question on the Biblical side honestly in the affirmative. Paul wrote about that and particularly meetings of such in I Cor 14. Are your meetings held accordingly with Holy Spirit doing His part overtly in concert with such efforts? Does each come with a song, a verse, a prophecy or such?
Not everyone has a prophecy to utter or a tongue to speak. We have psalms and we have doctrine. We have revelation. We have interpretation. More importantly, we have the Spirit and we discern the body.
Given your stances, attitude and comment, I'd virtually guarantee that your honest answer has to be no.
Well, you are in error.
Therefore, you don't really follow Paul's writings on corporate life much at all.
You must be thrilled to have been given the authority to make such pronouncements. However, you're wrong.
You are doggedly convincing me that you have less and less to offer me on such issues.
Why would I?
You have already decided that I am "deceived", that our meetings are devoid of the Spirit, that we scant Paul's teaching, that we don't follow the Scripture, and that unless I receive a specific new revelation from God which you believe that you have and which you believe that I don't have, I'm disobeying God's will.
You already have all the answers, and those of us who are foolish enough to take the Scriptures seriously and to disagree with Mr. Rutz are simply beneath you, aren't we?
You go ahead and continue to know everything about everything and appoint yourself as the arbiter and judge of the Church of God.
I'll just continue along in my ignorant Scriptural way. Best of luck.